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Hortonworks Alliance and Support for HCatalog Power Advanced Analytics on Hadoop Data

Redwood City, Calif. – May 20, 2013 – Organizations are encountering significant challenges running advanced analytics on big data stored in Apache Hadoop. To address this need, Actian today announced general availability of its Hadoop On Demand Integration module v2.0 for ParAccel, including support for HCatalog, the centralized metadata repository supported in several distributions of Hadoop, notably Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP).

ParAccel’s enhanced On Demand Integration module establishes parallel, bi-directional connections between the ParAccel Analytic Platform and Hadoop, allowing analysts to access Hadoop data at query time without an additional integration process or tool. Now organizations can leverage existing SQL skill sets and business intelligence tools on Hadoop data using the full spectrum of SQL functions. With a single SQL query, any analyst can run high-performance, advanced analytics across data in Hadoop and other corporate data sources.

This release also marks a milestone in an established alliance between the ParAccel team and Hortonworks, the only 100 percent open source data management platform for Apache Hadoop.

“Together, Hortonworks Data Platform and ParAccel Analytic Platform offer an integrated big data management and analytics solution that is cost-effective and quickly returns value for our shared customers,” said Mitch Ferguson, vice president of business development at Hortonworks. “With ParAccel’s support for HCatalog, companies can effectively target specific Hadoop data for analysis, running any SQL query and getting results in record time.”

Hadoop is often used to process and store large amounts of incoming data, particularly “semi-structured” and unstructured data such as weblogs or machine sensor data. To make analysis in Hadoop less complex, analysts can write a SQL query to ParAccel Analytic Platform, which accesses Hadoop data via the On-Demand Integration module and moves it into ParAccel for analysis. Parallel connections and optional HCatalog support enable the most efficient data movement between Hadoop and ParAccel, filtering and moving only the subset of data needed for a particular analysis right at query time, without a secondary process or tool. The ParAccel Hadoop On Demand Integration module gives analysts inline SQL access to big data to run advanced analytic functions, such as predictive analytics, market basket functions, pattern matching and social-aware text analytics.

“The integrated ParAccel-Hortonworks solution enables our mutual customers to unlock value from big data faster by making it easy and accessible to run SQL on data stored in Hadoop or other data sources. The combination brings together two extremely cost-effective platforms to maximize big data ROI,” said Rich Ghiossi, vice president of marketing for ParAccel.

Technology leaders from the companies will further discuss the combined solution in a webinar and live demo on May 21, 2013 10 a.m. PDT.

ParAccel and Hortonworks already share several customers. The most common use case of the combined platforms has been an “operational data refinery” model, leveraging Hortonworks HDP for Hadoop, while using ParAccel for high-performance big data analytics.

The ParAccel Hadoop On Demand Integration module is generally available now. For pricing and additional information, please contact ParAccel.

About Actian: Take Action on Big Data
Actian Corporation enables organizations to transform big data into business value with data management solutions to transact, connect, analyze and act on data. Actian helps 10,000+ customers worldwide take action on their big data with Vectorwise analytics database, RushAnalytics Hadoop accelerator, DataCloud platform for cloud and on-premises data integration, Action Apps lightweight, consumer-style applications that automate business actions, as well as Ingres, Versant and PSQL transactional mission-critical databases.  Actian is headquartered in California with offices in Austin, New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, New Delhi and Melbourne. Stay connected with Actian Corporation on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

About ParAccel
To gain a competitive advantage in a fast paced, data-driven world, companies need immediate answers to any business question they decide to ask.  As the leading analytic platform provider, ParAccel delivers an environment for unconstrained analytics and opens the door for companies to accelerate, innovate and compete.  ParAccel Analytic Platform combines an analytic database with extensibility and integration technology as a foundation for running big data analytics, anytime, anywhere.  ParAccel’s Fortune 1000 customers, in digital media, retail, financial services, healthcare and government, are testing the bounds of unconstrained analytics with this powerful, interactive analytic platform.  For more information please contact us at info@paraccel.com or 866-903-0335.

Actian, Action Apps, Ingres, RushAnalyzer, Vectorwise and Versant are trademarks of Actian Corporation and its subsidiaries. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.

Contacts:
Actian Corporation
Lacy LaBorde
512.656.6338
lacy.laborde@actian.com

Jesse Hamlin
Eastwick
paraccel@eastwick.com
(408) 470-4874

 

Acquisition Adds Amazon, The Royal Bank of Scotland, OfficeMax and MicroStrategy to Rapidly Expanding Global Big Data Customer Portfolio

Redwood City, Calif. – April 25, 2013 – Actian Corp. (“Actian”), a next-generation leader in big data management, today announced the immediate acquisition of ParAccel, a leader in high-performance analytics.

The acquisition further strengthens Actian’s unique position as a major global player with one of the most powerful infrastructure portfolios to deliver business value from big data.

“Actian is building a modern, highly innovative end-to-end database, integration and analytics solution aimed squarely at solving today’s growing data challenges,” said Robin Bloor, chief analyst and co-founder, The Bloor Group.  “With the ability to capture, ingest, analyze and take action on data at scale, Actian is now very powerfully positioned in the big data and data analytics markets.”

“Today’s software will fail to cope with complexities of big data,” said Steve Shine, CEO of Actian.  “The Actian software portfolio, which is specifically designed to fully exploit modern hardware architectures, arms organizations with an unmatched single platform to connect to any data, analyze it at scale for relevance and take action to turn big data into business value.”

A selection of Actian’s big data innovation includes:

• Actian DataCloud: A cloud platform for managing data including a powerful integration suite architected to provide frictionless and elastic access to any data on premises or in the cloud.
• Actian Vectorwise, Actian RushAnalytics and ParAccel: Analytic suite architected to exploit modern chips and multi-core servers to provide predictive and ad-hoc analysis at extreme scale and speed, including the acceleration of today’s Hadoop solutions.
• Actian Action Apps: Architected specifically for business users to be able to take action on any business event as it happens directly from their mobile device.

“ParAccel is being used by many of the world’s leading companies including Amazon, The Royal Bank of Scotland, OfficeMax and MicroStrategy to set them apart from their competition through analytics,” said Chuck Berger, CEO of ParAccel.  “With Actian, they have immediate access to a broader portfolio of solutions to turn their data into value.”

Joint customers of Actian and ParAccel already experience the value of the combined solution set.  “As a provider of right-time business intelligence as a service to innovative automotive manufacturers and dealerships, Autometrics aggregates data from 150 sites totaling millions of records per day, which must be deduplicated, loaded, analyzed and validated in shorter and shorter timeframes to drive clients’ critical business decisions,” said Stephen Shaw, Autometrics’ CEO.  “With the myriad of data integration capabilities from Actian and the ParAccel Analytic Database, we are able to give automotive manufacturers rapid measures of lower funnel demand to optimize their marketing initiatives, sales incentives and inventory management.” 

About Actian: Take Action on Big Data
Actian Corporation enables organizations to transform big data into business value with data management solutions to transact, connect, analyze and act on data. Actian helps 10,000+ customers worldwide take action on their big data with Vectorwise analytics database, RushAnalytics Hadoop accelerator, DataCloud for cloud and on-premises data integration, Action Apps, as well as Ingres, Versant and PSQL transactional mission-critical databases.  Actian is headquartered in California with offices in Austin, New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, New Dehli and Melbourne. Stay connected with Actian Corporation on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

About ParAccel
To gain a competitive advantage in a fast paced, data-driven world, companies need immediate answers to any business question they decide to ask.  As the leading analytic platform provider, ParAccel delivers an environment for unconstrained analytics and opens the door for companies to accelerate, innovate and compete.  ParAccel Analytic Platform combines an analytic database with extensibility and integration technology as a foundation for running big data analytics, anytime, anywhere.  ParAccel’s Fortune 1000 customers, in digital media, retail, financial services, healthcare and government, are testing the bounds of unconstrained analytics with this powerful, interactive analytic platform.  For more information please contact us at info@paraccel.com or 866-903-0335. The conversation continues on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Actian, Action Apps, Ingres, RushAnalyzer, Vectorwise and Versant are trademarks of Actian Corporation and its subsidiaries. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.

Contacts:
Actian Corporation
Lacy LaBorde
512.656.6338
lacy.laborde@actian.com

SHIFT Communications
Jennifer Usher
415.591.8456
jusher@shiftcomm.com

 

Campbell, Calif. – February 27, 2013 – For CIOs and business leaders, analytics are now a top priority for creating value from their business data. Historically, analytic activities have been divided within organizations – between business reporting and data scientists. Today, there is a need for analytic capabilities in between these two extremes that make an immediate business impact and deliver value. To address this need, ParAccel today announced a new analytics program and new analytic functions available on its high-performance analytic platform.

ParAccel is committed to an accelerated rate of innovation in analytics with dedicated development program and a separate release cycle for new analytic functions. In its first release under the new program, ParAccel announced new text, transformation, and “task” analytics. These functions allow users to speed time to analytic value by reducing data preparation and turning formerly complex analysis into simple routines. With the unique integration features of ParAccel’s platform, analysts can now execute these new analytic functions on data that is often hidden in Hadoop or data warehouses.

“Every customer who installs ParAccel quickly discovers the potential for analytics on the highest performing analytics engine,” said Rich Ghiossi, vice president of marketing at ParAccel. “ParAccel is committed to increasing our investment in analytics, high speed innovation, and continual value creation for our customers.”

The new analytic functions include social-aware text analytics to provide immediate insight into social media feeds, warranty files, customer comments, insurance claims, and other text-driven applications. Transformational functions like sessionization and a JSON parser automate high speed alteration of web application data, making it immediately usable for analytics. In addition, task analytics like pattern match and can be used for segmentation, profiling, sentiment, and fraud prevention.

ParAccel has optimized all the analytic functions to be fast, interactive, cost-effective and drive value. The platform already supports over 500 statistical, data mining and finance functions, but emerging use cases demonstrate the need for even more analytics that deliver immediate business value throughout an organization.

The new analytic functions will be generally available within the first half of 2013.

 

About ParAccel
To gain a competitive advantage in a fast paced, data-driven world, companies need immediate answers to any business question they decide to ask. As the leading analytic platform provider, ParAccel delivers an environment for unconstrained analytics and opens the door for companies to accelerate, innovate and compete. ParAccel Analytic Platform combines an analytic database with extensibility and integration technology as a foundation for running big data analytics, anytime, anywhere. ParAccel’s Fortune 1000 customers, in digital media, retail, financial services, healthcare and government, are testing the bounds of unconstrained analytics with the most powerful, most interactive analytic platform in the world. For more information please contact us at info@paraccel.com or 866-903-0335. The conversation continues on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Press Contact:
Jesse Hamlin
Eastwick for ParAccel
408-470-4874
paraccel@eastwick.com

 

Campbell, Calif. – February 12, 2013 – The 2013 Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems” places ParAccel in the visionaries quadrant, the highest “ability to execute” axis within the quadrant and the furthest right on the “fullness of vision” axis. ParAccel believes this to be a testament to its ability to help customers harness unconstrained analytics to accelerate business momentum, innovate and compete. For this year’s report, Gartner analysts evaluated 14 vendors.

ParAccel’s expanded vision for cooperative processing; including innovative on-demand integration capabilities, aligns well with the logical data warehouse at a key moment in the analytics market. Its comprehensive set of advanced functions and in-database analytics speed the deployment of analytic applications. ParAccel already provides significant capabilities for social analytics and many of the new big data dataset issues such as analytics directly on Hadoop. Looking to the future, ParAccel’s continued investment in new analytics capabilities and partnerships is driving the movement toward the analytics-driven enterprise.

“We believe that Gartner’s recognition of ParAccel as a Visionary underscores our achievements in product improvements, investments and innovations that drive value and opportunities for our customers,” said Chuck Berger, CEO of ParAccel. “We are pushing forward into the next phase of our industry – advancing the analytics-driven enterprise.”

Demonstrating innovation on the business side, ParAccel’s new Right to Deploy licensing model offers a single license charge, based on intended use, regardless of type and number of servers and storage devices.

The 2013 Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems was written by Mark Beyer, Research Vice President, and Donald Feinberg, Distinguished Analyst and Research VP.

About Gartner
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About ParAccel
To gain a competitive advantage in a fast paced, data-driven world, companies need immediate answers to any business question they decide to ask. As the leading analytic platform provider, ParAccel delivers an environment for unconstrained analytics and opens the door for companies to accelerate, innovate and compete. ParAccel Analytic Platform combines an analytic database with extensibility and integration technology as a foundation for running big data analytics, anytime, anywhere. ParAccel’s Fortune 1000 customers, in digital media, retail, financial services, healthcare and government, are testing the bounds of unconstrained analytics with the most powerful, most interactive analytic platform in the world. For more information please contact us at info@paraccel.com or 866-903-0335. The conversation continues on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Press Contact:
Jesse Hamlin
Eastwick for ParAccel
408-470-4874
paraccel@eastwick.com

 

New Right to Deploy licensing enables unlimited use of ParAccel for any amount of data, users, or CPUs

Campbell, Calif. – February 12, 2013 – The information management industry is faced with the biggest opportunity in decades – big data. More data begets better insights and bigger value for companies who can effectively harness it using big data and analytic technology, most of which traditionally use “cost per terabyte” pricing models that increase prices to handle more data. To allow its customers to maximize the value from increased volumes of data, rather than suffer from constraints or further expense, ParAccel has introduced its Right to Deploy pricing model. This license agreement allows companies to deploy unlimited ParAccel technology within flexible parameters such as region, time period, business division or application area, instead of charging per terabyte or per user.

Under a single license, companies can license ParAccel for many use cases, including archiving of massive amounts of data, disaster recovery, analytic sandboxes, development environments, and more. Only ParAccel offers the unique right to deploy licensing option allowing companies to pay once and use as much of ParAccel as they want, with no limitations on data, analytics, users, or nodes.  This type of licensing opportunity is not available from ParAccel’s competitors, allowing customers freedom and flexibility around how much and what type of servers or storage are used, without incurring further expenses. 

Along with “Per Node” pricing, this new offering gives ParAccel customers pricing flexibility to align their technology investment with the growth of their business.  ParAccel now expands deployment flexibility to four areas:

Processing Power: ParAccel’s technology is available both on-disk and in-memory. Companies can choose between high performance and extreme performance for real time analytics.

Location: Analytics can be run from commodity hardware on-premise, in the cloud, or in a hybrid model.

Delivery: ParAccel Analytic Platform can be delivered as software, directly to the data center, or delivered as an appliance. Both delivery models allow companies to load their data and start running queries immediately.

Licensing: Now, offering both node-by-node and Right to Deploy pricing models, ParAccel can optimize the pricing model to fit the unique needs of each customer.

“Our customers demand flexibility across the board, and pricing should be no different. While our competitors are charging for their software based on the amount of data, we took an innovative, customer-friendly approach with Right to Deploy licensing. This is one more step toward removing all barriers to what can be done with new data pouring in every second,” said Chuck Berger, chairman and CEO of ParAccel.

Right to Deploy pricing is available immediately for ParAccel Analytic Platform.

About ParAccel
To gain a competitive advantage in a fast paced, data-driven world, companies need immediate answers to any business question they decide to ask. As the leading analytic platform provider, ParAccel delivers an environment for unconstrained analytics and opens the door for companies to accelerate, innovate and compete. ParAccel Analytic Platform combines an analytic database with extensibility and integration technology as a foundation for running big data analytics, anytime, anywhere. ParAccel’s Fortune 1000 customers, in digital media, retail, financial services, healthcare and government, are testing the bounds of unconstrained analytics with the most powerful, most interactive analytic platform in the world. For more information please contact us at info@paraccel.com or 866-903-0335. The conversation continues on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Press Contact:
Jesse Hamlin
Eastwick for ParAccel
408-470-4874
paraccel@eastwick.com

 

January 20, 2013 – Campbell, Calif. – ParAccel, a leading analytics platform provider, today announced three new reseller partnerships in EMEA. The new resellers, located in Benelux, Israel and Slovenia, will now provide big data analytics solutions for new customers, as well as expanding local support to ParAccel’s current customers, in those countries and regions.

The three new partnerships focus on providing business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing solutions alongside ParAccel to allow organizations to drive business and innovation.

Demonstrating early traction with the new relationships, ParAccel has already signed two new customers in the financial and communications industries for risk analytics, trading analytics and network analytics. With over 30 pending deals from the new resellers, ParAccel is continuing its company momentum both in US and global markets.

Inergy is a European leader in BI cloud services and data warehouse solutions. “ParAccel’s performance, enabled by columnar data storage and massively parallel processing power, allows for lean and mean data warehouse architectures consisting of less layers than traditional architectures,” said Mathijs van Houweninge, Owner and General Director, Inergy. “Lower TCO and shorter time-to-market enable customers to rapidly respond to changing market conditions and business challenges. ParAccel's technology adds real value to business and IT."

MidLink, headquartered in Israel, focuses on deploying database solutions, and was attracted by ParAccel’s innovations in on-demand integration, in-database analytics and performance. “Many of our customers are looking for leading, out-of-the-box analytics solutions to implement completely new data warehouses or optimize the ones already in place,” said Sam Babab, CEO of MidLink Computing.

CRMT focuses on BI and data management, and selected ParAccel as the best solution for advanced analytics for their regional market, according to Slavko Kastelic, founder and business development of CRMT. “We are also very confident that ParAccel will continue to lead with innovation in this area enabling our customers to be even more successful in their analytic based businesses,” Kastelic said.

“Our new partners further validate that the analytics market is growing and will continue to grow as companies realize the untapped value of their data investments. ParAccel is deepening its industry expertise by working closely with partners to define new analytic solutions that drive competitive advantage for our customers,” said Chuck Berger, CEO of ParAccel.

About ParAccel
To gain a competitive advantage in a fast paced, data-driven world, companies need immediate answers to any business question they decide to ask. As the leading analytic platform provider, ParAccel delivers an environment for unconstrained analytics and opens the door for companies to accelerate, innovate and compete. ParAccel Analytic Platform combines an analytic database with extensibility and integration technology as a foundation for running big data analytics, anytime, anywhere. ParAccel’s Fortune 1000 customers, in digital media, retail, financial services, healthcare and government, are testing the bounds of unconstrained analytics with the most powerful, most interactive analytic platform in the world. For more information please contact us at info@paraccel.com or 866-903-0335. The conversation continues on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Press Contact:
Jesse Hamlin
Eastwick for ParAccel
408-470-4874
paraccel@eastwick.com

 

New On Demand Integration Unites Hadoop with All Data to Drive More Analytic Value

Campbell, Calif. – October 23, 2012 – Companies investing in big data technology have captured massive amounts of data, however big data file systems are proving to be difficult for running analytics and thus deriving little value from the data. To address this massive value vacuum, ParAccel, a leading enterprise analytics platform provider, today announced the next update to its Hadoop On Demand Integration (ODI) Module, as the next phase of its big data strategy for unconstrained analytics on Hadoop data. The module boasts deeper Hadoop integration, giving companies better leverage of their existing big data investments, more comprehensive and competitive analytics, and faster time to value creation.

In addition, ParAccel announced On Demand Integration Services, a database extension layer that opens up the power of its analytic platform so third parties can easily build ODI modules and continue to build out interactive connections to other platforms, applications, and data sources. ODI Services puts interactive analytics at the center of the data and technology universe compared to other approaches where analytic apps operated independently and data was inaccessible to the analyst or data scientist.

“The conversation about big data has quickly shifted to analytics and value creation,” says Mark Madsen, research analyst at Third Nature. “ParAccel’s ability to execute high-performance analytics on an integrated universe of big data is a unique offering in the market today. The ability to provide SQL access to Hadoop, and Hadoop access to ParAccel allows for a broader range of analytic processing than either platform can achieve alone.”

The improved ParAccel Hadoop ODI makes ParAccel the first analytic platform to enable unconstrained analytics on the entire datasphere, connecting both relational and non-relational data for increased depth and value. New advancements include bi-directional sharing of data and processes with Hadoop, integration with HCatalog for metadata exchange, and certification on Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH) (see ParAccel Cloudera partner brief).

ParAccel ODI Services provide a simple Application Programming Interface (API) to allow developers to leverage all of the parallelism, optimization, and execution of the ParAccel Analytic Platform for new ODI modules. Customers, partners, and developers will be able to rapidly develop and deploy new ODI modules, transform data in near real-time (2.5 million rows per second), and combine various remote data sources and applications for deeper analysis and richer analytic value.

“Our customers continue to push the limits of what can be done with analytics,” said Chuck Berger, CEO at ParAccel.  “This expansion of our analytic platform to connect data everywhere will deliver deeper, more meaningful insight and sustainable competitive advantage. The new value equations is this: big data plus big analytics equals big value.”

About ParAccel
To gain a competitive advantage in a fast paced, data-driven world, companies need immediate answers to any business question they decide to ask. As the leading analytic platform provider, ParAccel delivers an environment for unconstrained analytics and opens the door for companies to accelerate, innovate and compete. ParAccel Analytic Platform combines an analytic database with extensibility and integration technology as a foundation for running big data analytics, anytime, anywhere. ParAccel’s Fortune 1000 customers, in digital media, retail, financial services, healthcare and government, are testing the bounds of unconstrained analytics with the most powerful, most interactive analytic platform in the world. For more information please contact us at info@paraccel.com or 866-903-0335. The conversation continues on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Press Contact:
Jesse Hamlin
Eastwick for ParAccel
408-470-4874
paraccel@eastwick.com

 

Analytic Platform provides near real time data integration and analytics on over 2.5 billion rows of customer data

Campbell, Calif. – September 12, 2012 – Every day, companies look to Merkle, an industry leading customer relationship marketing agency, to provide them with the ability to segment their customer base and create personalized marketing campaigns for competitive advantage. To accomplish this, Merkle has expanded its use of the ParAccel Analytic Platform, which is at the core of its customer data integration application.

Because ParAccel is built from the ground up to handle any type of analytics on massive amounts of data, Merkle is able to use data in a more granular form. The agency is able to generate a targeted list of consumers based on over 100 specific attributes for each client’s marketing objectives and audience. ParAccel’s support for detailed data allows its clients to get more accurate results, while processing more data, faster than competing offerings.

 “With the customer database at the core of our business, we consistently beat our competitors with more customer dimensions, more recent data, more sophisticated analytics, better matching, and quicker response times,” said Peter Rogers, vice president, technology at Merkle. “ParAccel currently allows our clients to match new customer records to 2.5 billion rows of customer data on a daily basis.”

The expanded application now stores 200 terabytes of raw data, compressing it down to 50 terabytes on ParAccel, giving Merkle the ability to offer its clients better matching options to fine tune its targeted marketing and improve conversion rates. The company has also added new regions, increased the number of analysts accessing their system, and moved to daily updates compared to previous weekly updates.

ParAccel’s massively parallel architecture allows Merkle to predict growth, scale in linear fashion, and add new clients with node-by-node expansion. This flexibility aligns the cost of infrastructure with revenue and customer requirements.

“Merkle originally selected ParAccel because of winning execution speed and price performance,” said Rogers, citing that the agency plans continued expansion of the application footprint because of ParAccel’s ongoing speed of innovation, new additions of in-database analytics, increased support of analytic functions, and on-demand integration of external data sources.

“Today’s consumers are more selective than ever and fundamentally this is changing the way companies target customers and promote their marketing campaigns,” said Chuck Berger, CEO at ParAccel.  “Merkle is a role model for the way analytics can help drive business innovation by tightening the focus on customer needs.”

About ParAccel
To gain a competitive advantage in a fast paced, data-driven world, companies need immediate answers to any business question they decide to ask. As the leading analytic platform provider, ParAccel delivers an environment for unconstrained analytics and opens the door for companies to accelerate, innovate and compete. ParAccel Analytic Platform combines an analytic database with extensibility and integration technology as a foundation for running big data analytics, anytime, anywhere. ParAccel’s Fortune 1000 customers, in digital media, retail, financial services, healthcare and government, are testing the bounds of unconstrained analytics with the most powerful, most interactive analytic platform in the world. For more information please contact us at info@paraccel.com or 866-903-0335. The conversation continues on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

About Merkle
Merkle, a customer relationship marketing (CRM) firm, is the nation’s largest privately-held agency. For more than 20 years, Fortune 1000 companies and leading nonprofit organizations have partnered with Merkle to maximize the value of their customer portfolios. By combining a complete range of marketing, technical, analytical and creative disciplines, Merkle works with clients to design, execute and evaluate connected CRM programs. With more than 1,600 employees, the privately held corporation is headquartered near Baltimore in Columbia, Maryland with additional offices in Boston; Chicago; Denver; Little Rock; Minneapolis; New York; Philadelphia; Pittsburgh; San Francisco; Hagerstown, MD and Shanghai. For more information, contact Merkle at 1-877-9-Merkle or visit www.merkleinc.com.

Press Contact:
Jesse Hamlin
Eastwick for ParAccel
408-470-4874
paraccel@eastwick.com

 

Cindy Cole Sauvignon joins ParAccel as Vice President, Channel Sales

Campbell, Calif. – September 5, 2012 – ParAccel, Inc., a leading enterprise analytics platform provider, today announced a targeted focus on select channel partners to support a vertical go-to-market strategy. Forty-two new resellers and solution providers will help companies create strategic value deploying ParAccel Analytic Platform at the core of big data analytic solutions.

Teaming with industry leading enterprise partners and boutique solution providers that have specific industry and business areas of expertise, ParAccel continues to help organizations overcome analytic challenges allowing them to analyze vast amounts of information and enable the analytics-driven enterprise. Through these hand selected partnerships, 59 deals have recently been registered signifying the excitement and growth in this space from both the channel community and the customers that they support.

“We recognize the value of being a ParAccel channel partner as an important step towards building a powerful big data ecosystem to support our expanding base of customers,” said Sanjay B. Kucheria, CEO of Trinus Corporation. “With the combination of ParAccel and our deep industry experience, we will enable customers to accelerate their business, increase innovation, and beat their competition using analytics.

The 42 new partners include Brightlight Consulting, DataStrong, Denovo Group, Destiny Corporation, Express Analytics, iOLAP, IQ Associates, Ortess, Southport Services, and Trinus. Among the new partners are a number of companies with deep industry expertise in telecommunications, retail, healthcare, financial services, digital media, and government. ParAccel has also signed a number of Netezza resellers wanting to shift their business toward ParAccel Analytic Platform, the latest and most advanced analytics technology.

ParAccel also appoints Cindy Cole Sauvignon, a 15-year veteran of award winning global channel sales experience, to build on the momentum of the company’s existing partner ecosystem, enabling resellers, solution providers, and distribution partners to sell and implement ParAccel solutions.

Before joining ParAccel, Sauvignon was vice president, Global Channels for Meru Networks, a leader in the virtualized wireless networking space, where she increased the top tier revenue partners by over 400 percent and doubled revenue with the top 200 partners. In 2011, Sauvignon was awarded a Computer Reseller News Channel Chief award for her success. Under her leadership channel revenue climbed over 20% year over year.

Prior to Meru Networks, Sauvignon drove worldwide channel sales for the enterprise division of Nuance Communications, a leading provider of voice and language solutions for businesses and consumers, helping the company achieve $1 billion in sales. Sauvignon also held key roles on global strategic alliance teams and programs at leading companies such as Trend Micro, Sun/iPlanet and Novell. Prior to her channel experience she spent 10 years in enterprise sales roles in the US and UK.

“We will continue to empower our partners to work more closely and successfully with us to grow their businesses and address evolving customer requirements and sustain long-term customer loyalty,” said Chuck Berger, CEO at ParAccel. “ParAccel has a dedicated focus on growing its solution sales by expanding its indirect channel capacity and building on a strong foundation for recruiting, educating, and engaging partners.”

About ParAccel
To gain a competitive advantage in a fast paced, data-driven world, companies need immediate answers to any business question they decide to ask. As the leading analytic platform provider, ParAccel accelerates analytics and opens the door for companies to accelerate, innovate and compete. ParAccel Analytic Platform is an analytic database surrounded by extensibility and integration technology as a foundation for running big data analytics, anytime, anywhere. ParAccel’s Fortune 1000 customers, in digital media, retail, financial services, healthcare and government, are testing the bounds of unconstrained analytics with the most prolific, most powerful, most expansive analytic platform in the world. For more information please contact us at info@paraccel.com or 866-903-0335. The conversation continues on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Press Contact:
Jesse Hamlin
Eastwick for ParAccel
408-470-4874
paraccel@eastwick.com

 

New release supports greater sophistication, more dynamic analytics, and increased interactivity

Campbell, Calif. – August 8, 2012 – ParAccel, a leading enterprise analytics platform provider, today announced the general availability of ParAccel 4.0, extending its leadership as the most powerful analytic platform for big data. The new release builds on ParAccel’s vision and technical expertise to help organizations power high performance, interactive big data analytics with increasing speed and reliability.

Organizations are looking for ways to manage big data while making the most of their current technology investments. As a result, many have started to implement logical data warehouses or hybrid data ecosystems – architectures that allow data and workloads to migrate to the best suited platform. ParAccel Analytic Platform, with its on-demand integration modules released last month, enables organizations to implement this type of interactive environment while delivering high-performance analytics at any scale.

ParAccel 4.0 enables companies to execute analytics in dynamic and interactive environments with improved stability and performance increases of 15 percent:

• Advanced Query Optimization tracks data properties all the way through the pipeline of query processing, speeding aggregation by more than 20 times
• Interconnect Optimization includes a virtual hotwire feature that doubles data transmission throughput while using fewer CPU cycles
• Advanced I/O Optimization uses an improved pre-fetch algorithm to adapt intelligently to changing workloads resulting in consistent performance improvement
• New Hash Join Algorithms optimize the utilization of memory and dynamically change the execution strategy at run-time resulting in improved performance
• Expanded Connections now support up to 5000 simultaneous, client connections to the ParAccel Analytic Platform
• Interactive Workload Management introduces a persistent class of queries to ensure the performance of both short and long-running queries in an interactive environment
• New Vacuum capability improves the maintenance of tables with large unsorted regions and eliminates internal fragmentation with a finer-grained, dynamic segmenting and merging technique

“If you consider how analytics have traditionally been run – offline, static, standalone – there’s a large gap that needs to be filled if organizations want to meet 21st century demands,” said Chuck Berger, CEO at ParAccel. “ParAccel Analytic Platform allows data scientists and business analysts to power through increasingly complex queries on massive amounts of data, in real-time. Thousands of users can now leverage all of the data in the enterprise and beyond for the new world of analytics.”

ParAccel 4.0 also extends support for built-in functions including new window functions and improved precision for analytic execution. In addition, ParAccel continues to add more SQL functionality including the support of more efficient ways to define tables that can be reused during the execution of a query. These combined features allow larger numbers of users to execute increasing numbers of queries in a highly interactive analytic environment.

For a full list of features with descriptions, please see the ParAccel 4.0 Fact Sheet.

About ParAccel
To gain a competitive advantage in a fast paced, data-driven world, companies need immediate answers to any business question they decide to ask. As the leading analytic platform provider, ParAccel accelerates analytics and opens the door for companies to accelerate, innovate and compete. ParAccel Analytic Platform is an analytic database surrounded by extensibility and integration technology as a foundation for running big data analytics, anytime, anywhere. ParAccel’s Fortune 1000 customers, in digital media, retail, financial services, healthcare and government, are testing the bounds of unconstrained analytics with the most prolific, most powerful, most expansive analytic platform in the world. For more information please contact us at info@paraccel.com or 866-903-0335. The conversation continues on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

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Erin McCabe
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Campbell, Calif. – June 28, 2012 – ParAccel, a leading enterprise analytics platform provider, today announced two new analytic offload solutions that bring high-performance analytics to existing data warehouse installations. The ParAccel Analytic Offload Solutions for Oracle and Teradata are a combination of the ParAccel Analytic Platform and a set of services that will help companies identify and then move analytic workloads from overworked data warehouses and large data marts to ParAccel’s Analytic Platform. Both solutions free up data warehouse resources and provide an environment for unconstrained analytics, allowing both IT and business analysts to invest more time and resources on strategic business initiatives.

As a core component to these solutions, ParAccel also announced the general availability of the ParAccel On Demand Integration Module for Teradata and ParAccel ODBC On Demand Integration (“ODI”) Module for Oracle.  These ODIs allow companies to seamlessly connect ParAccel Analytic Platform to an existing data warehouse or data mart and immediately receive dramatically better performance for their analytic workloads.

Offloading analytic workloads, which can account for up to 80 percent of the administrative overhead, will free up the data warehouse to support operational reporting and dashboards. In addition, the new platform enables unconstrained analytics where analysts are free to explore entire data sets as required by the business.

Solution Benefits:

• 100 times better price performance; compared to the cost of expanding Teradata to support analytics
• 100 times better performance; based on a 46 hour Oracle query that now runs in 30 seconds on ParAccel without any tuning
• 400 percent productivity gains by analysts; based on a move from 80 percent of time spent gathering data to 80 percent of time doing analysis

“It’s important to let workloads gravitate to the platforms that handle them best,” said Shawn Rogers, research vice president at EMA. “There is no one platform that can do it all. To drive maximum value from data management investments the business analyst should be able to interact among data warehouse, analytic platform, and big data platform.”

Specifically targeted to support Teradata and Oracle data warehouse customers, the new On Demand Integration Modules are built to give analysts inline access to data in the data warehouse:

ParAccel On Demand Integration Module for Teradata

• Inline data access using Teradata FastExport utility
• High-speed, parallel data movement from data warehouse to analytic platform

ParAccel ODBC On Demand Integration Module

• Inline data access to any relational database source, including Oracle
• Standards based access to structured data

“Our customers want the freedom to do unconstrained analysis whenever the need arises, on whatever data they want,” said Paul Zolfaghari, chief operating officer, ParAccel. “Analytic Offload complements the investment they’ve already made in data warehousing, by giving them a collaborative computing environment where they can do analytics alongside their reporting and dashboard system.”

About ParAccel
To gain a competitive advantage in a fast paced, data-driven world, companies need immediate answers to any business question they decide to ask. As the leading analytic platform provider, ParAccel accelerates analytics and opens the door for companies to accelerate, innovate and compete. ParAccel Analytic Platform is an analytic database surrounded by extensibility and integration technology as a foundation for running big data analytics, anytime, anywhere. ParAccel’s Fortune 1000 customers, in digital media, retail, financial services, healthcare and government, are testing the bounds of unconstrained analytics with the most prolific, most powerful, most expansive analytic platform in the world. For more information please contact us at info@paraccel.com or 866-903-0335. The conversation continues on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

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Jesse Hamlin
Eastwick for ParAccel
408-470-4874
paraccel@eastwick.com

 

Campbell, CALIF. – June 13, 2012 – ParAccel, a leading analytics platform, today announced a new solution that brings its high performance analytics to a collaborative computing environment for data warehouse tools and big data platforms. The ParAccel big data analytic solution creates new value by bringing corporate data and big data into an unconstrained analytic workspace. As a core component to this solution, ParAccel announced the general availability of the Hadoop On Demand Integration Module, a connector that applies the power of ParAccel’s analytic platform to Hadoop data or analytic results.

New Customers, Evernote and Alliance Health Networks, Deploy On-Demand Solution

ParAccel’s customers have deployed the big data analytic solution to profit from the increased time to value and power of their data:

• Evernote, the fast growing web services company that helps people capture, store and access content anywhere, chose ParAccel based on the ability to run collaborative, unconstrained analysis across multiple data sets along with its fast integration with Hadoop.
• Alliance Health Networks (AHN), a leading healthcare social media company, connecting people to others who share their health challenges, selected ParAccel in place of Hadoop. Compared to other databases and Hadoop, ParAccel demonstrated the ability to handle data volume, performance and data variety, all running on industry-standard hardware. AHN is using ParAccel to support deep analysis of the big data generated by activity in its social networks.

“We will deploy ParAccel to access and analyze all of Evernote’s data to improve customer acquisition, retention and experience on all our products,” said Nathan Johnson, manager of data warehouse and analytics, Evernote. “Hadoop by itself does not have the ability to answer questions quickly and feed reporting and dashboards, so we complemented that service with ParAccel’s high speed big data solution.”

“In order to deliver new value we need the ability to leverage all our information no matter where it is stored,” said Peter Nettesheim, vice president of business intelligence, Alliance Health Networks. “Through the use of unconstrained analytics and a collaborative computing approach made possible with ParAccel, we can drive our business with more information more effectively.”

Companies trying to run analytics on big data platforms can expect to eliminate the need for a major programming effort and platform support for growing data volume and variety, increasing complexity of analytics, and continually dynamic business and analytics requirements.

“Companies investing in big data are looking for ways to drive more value out of their investments,” said Rick Glick, vice president of customer and partner development, ParAccel. “The ParAccel big data analytic solution becomes the engine for strategic value, by creating a collaborative computing environment where they can run deep analytics alongside the archiving, filtering and transformation work of Hadoop.”

About ParAccel
To gain a competitive advantage in a fast paced, data-driven world, companies need immediate answers to any business question they decide to ask. As the leading analytic platform provider, ParAccel accelerates analytics and opens the door for companies to accelerate, innovate and compete. ParAccel Analytic Platform is an analytic database surrounded by extensibility and integration technology as a foundation for running big data analytics, anytime, anywhere. ParAccel’s Fortune 1000 customers, in digital media, retail, financial services, healthcare and government, are testing the bounds of unconstrained analytics with the most prolific, most powerful, most expansive analytic platform in the world. For more information please contact us at info@paraccel.com or 866-903-0335.

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Jesse Hamlin
Eastwick for ParAccel
408-470-4874
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ParAccel Analytic Platform Cuts Analytic Run Time from Months to Minutes

Campbell, CA — June 4, 2012 — ParAccel, Inc., a leading enterprise analytic platform provider, today announced that Carfax, the most trusted provider of vehicle history information, continues to drive customer loyalty and fraud prevention through new analytic applications using the ParAccel Analytic Platform. ParAccel serves as the foundation for Carfax’s internal data warehouse and provides the company greater speed and agility in delivering new analytics to the business. Carfax maintains the largest vehicle history database ever assembled, comprising over nine billion vehicle records from more than 34,000 sources. According to Paula Mueller, Carfax director of business intelligence, Carfax understands the value of their data as an asset and to the potential of creating analytic value for the business.

Carfax uses advanced analytics to support their sales and marketing organizations. Customer analytics took days to run on Carfax's previous data warehouse platform. Some of the more complex fraud analytics wouldn't complete at all. IT staff was spending an inordinate amount of time trying to tune the database and tweak the queries to get better performance. On ParAccel, the analytics that took days to run now run in under 20 minutes without any tuning. Most analytics run in 5-15 minutes versus hours or days. With less time spent on administration, the IT staff is moving faster to keep pace with the speed of business innovation.

"Speeding the delivery of valuable business analytics was the driving force behind choosing ParAccel," Mueller said. "When the business started getting their analytics on time, they were ecstatic! They are now pushing to move from monthly to daily processing—something that would not have been feasible before ParAccel—and they have no shortage of ideas for other ways we can leverage the platform to create business value."

"Carfax is using ParAccel to accelerate analytics in a way that brings IT and business together around innovation," said Rich Ghiossi, vice president of marketing at ParAccel. "Their use of analytics has not only motivated their sales team but has helped drive their business decisions and enhance their competitive advantage in the marketplace."

Carfax will be presenting at the upcoming TDWI Solution Summit "Big Data Analytics for Real-Time Business Advantage" from June 4-6 in San Diego, CA. During the presentation Carfax will discuss how using the ParAccel Analytic Platform allowed the company to deploy a data warehouse that accelerates complex customer and fraud analytics. Topics to be covered include how they quickly generated momentum for the use of analytics by the business and how analytic insights have added business value. For more information see ParAccel TDWI Speaking Media Alert.

About ParAccel
To gain a competitive advantage in a fast paced, data-driven world, companies need immediate answers to any business question they decide to ask. As the leading analytic platform provider, ParAccel accelerates analytics and opens the door for companies to accelerate, innovate and compete. ParAccel Analytic Platform is an analytic database surrounded by extensibility and integration technology as a foundation for running big data analytics, anytime, anywhere. ParAccel’s Fortune 1000 customers, in digital media, retail, financial services, healthcare and government, are testing the bounds of unconstrained analytics with the most prolific, most powerful, most expansive analytic platform in the world. For more information please contact us at info@paraccel.com or 866-903-0335.

Press Contact:
Jesse Hamlin
Eastwick for ParAccel
408-470-4874
paraccel@eastwick.com

 

Campbell, Calif. – May 22, 2012 – ParAccel, Inc., a leading enterprise analytic platform provider, today announced it has been chosen by JMP Securities as a “Hot 100 Best Privately Held Software Company.” ParAccel was selected based on its success in helping companies deliver big data analytics across their enterprise on ParAccel’s analytic database platform.

The Hot 100 list is compiled by senior software analysts Pat Walravens, Greg McDowell, and Peter Lowry at JMP Securities, a San Francisco-based, full-service investment bank. The report is published annually to highlight some of the best private companies in the software industry.

The Hot 100 list is selected each year based on the evaluation of multiple criteria, including financial growth, products and services, quality of leadership, customers and market potential. As a leading provider of big data analytics, ParAccel aligns with all four of the report themes: SaaS, big data, mobility, and social platforms.

“ParAccel is pleased to be included in The Hot 100,” said Chuck Berger, chief executive officer of ParAccel. “The speed of growth and innovation we are experiencing this year speaks to the growing demand for big data analytics. Our customers continue to push the bounds of unconstrained analytics with new analytic applications. The credit goes to our team of more than 100 talented, innovative, and motivated people here at ParAccel. The recognition from JMP, a thought-leader in financial analysis, is invaluable for our company.”

About ParAccel
To gain a competitive advantage in a fast paced, data-driven world, companies need immediate answers to any business question they decide to ask. As the leading analytic platform provider, ParAccel accelerates analytics and opens the door for companies to accelerate, innovate and compete. ParAccel Analytic Platform is an analytic database surrounded by extensibility and integration technology as a foundation for running big data analytics, anytime, anywhere. ParAccel’s Fortune 1000 customers, in digital media, retail, financial services, healthcare and government, are testing the bounds of unconstrained analytics with the most prolific, most powerful, most expansive analytic platform in the world. For more information please contact us at info@paraccel.com or 866-903-0335.

Press Contact:
Jesse Hamlin
Eastwick for ParAccel
408-470-4874
paraccel@eastwick.com

 

CAMPBELL, CA, May 16, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- ParAccel, Inc., a leading enterprise analytic platform provider, today announced that it is scheduled to present at the Red Herring Americas 2012 Conference, on Wednesday, May 23 in Santa Monica, CA. Chuck Berger, chief executive officer and chairman of ParAccel, will speak about the opportunities for companies looking to harness big data, as well as the need for a mix of data management and analytics to create value for the organization.

The Red Herring 100 Americas Conference will bring together 250 C-level technology entrepreneurs, corporate strategists and venture financiers from across the continent. It will discuss the drivers for successful entrepreneurship, and will demonstrate how innovation is creating business opportunities for challengers and incumbents alike.

About ParAccel To gain a competitive advantage in a fast paced, data-driven world, companies need immediate answers to any business question they decide to ask. As the leading analytic platform provider, ParAccel accelerates analytics and opens the door for companies to accelerate, innovate and compete. ParAccel Analytic Platform is an analytic database surrounded by extensibility and integration technology as a foundation for running big data analytics, anytime, anywhere. ParAccel's Fortune 1000 customers, in digital media, retail, financial services, healthcare and government, are testing the bounds of unconstrained analytics with the most prolific, most powerful, most expansive analytic platform in the world. For more information please contact us at info@paraccel.com or 866-903-0335.

Press Contact:
Jesse Hamlin
Eastwick for ParAccel
408-470-4874
paraccel@eastwick.com

 

CAMPBELL, CA, May 01, 2012 — ParAccel, Inc., a leading enterprise analytic platform provider, today announced that it is scheduled to present at Jefferies Annual Global TMT Conference, on Tuesday, May 8 in New York City. Paul Zolfaghari, chief operating officer at ParAccel, will participate on a panel discussing new database technologies designed to harness and bring value to enterprise big data challenges. Zolfaghari will focus on how companies can leverage big data to drive innovation, growth and sustain competitive advantage through accelerated and improved decision making.

The Jefferies Annual Global TMT Conference is a global gathering of institutional investors, private equity investors, venture capital firms and senior executives who will address trends and developments within the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) market sector, as well as near- and long-term investment opportunities.

About ParAccel
To gain a competitive advantage in a fast paced, data-driven world, companies need immediate answers to any business question they decide to ask. As the leading analytic platform provider, ParAccel accelerates analytics and opens the door for companies to accelerate, innovate and compete. ParAccel Analytic Platform is an analytic database surrounded by extensibility and integration technology as a foundation for running big data analytics, anytime, anywhere. ParAccel's Fortune 1000 customers, in digital media, retail, financial services, healthcare and government, are testing the bounds of unconstrained analytics with the most prolific, most powerful, most expansive analytic platform in the world. For more information please contact us at info@paraccel.com or 866-903-0335.

Press Contact:
Jesse Hamlin
Eastwick for ParAccel
408-470-4874
paraccel@eastwick.com

 

Delivers Unprecedented Performance in Business Intelligence Reporting and Analytics on Big Data

San Francisco and Campbell, CA, January 11, 2012 — Birst, Inc., the leader in agile business analytics and ParAccel, Inc., provider of the world’s leading analytic platform, today announced that the two companies have partnered to power a scalable and sophisticated yet easy-to-use analytics solution for big data. Birst will leverage ParAccel’s analytic platform to further enhance the scalability of its business intelligence solution for complex and growing data sets, while ParAccel will use Birst’s front-end business intelligence solution to better visualize and manage the CRM applications used to run its business as well as in sales enablement.

“Whether companies elect to deploy their BI and analytics solutions in the cloud or on premise, the technology must deliver unsurpassed performance and scalability, especially when dealing with larger and more complex data sets,” said Chuck Berger, CEO for ParAccel. “The combination of Birst’s agile BI and ParAccel’s analytic platform enables companies to make sense of their big data and empowers business users to analyze a multitude of complex data types faster than ever before.”

Birst is a fully integrated Business Intelligence (BI) solution delivered in the cloud or on premise. It includes all of the components of an enterprise BI suite including data integration and ETL services, analytics, dashboards, pixel perfect and ad hoc reports, scheduling and delivery. ParAccel’s massively parallel, columnar, compressed and compiled approach delivers unmatched processing power.

“Birst has revolutionized traditional BI by delivering a much easier to deploy and use solution that can be run in the private or public cloud , yet still retain the enterprise capabilities one would expect from traditional big BI,” said Brad Peters, CEO and co-Founder of Birst. “With ParAccel’s ultra performance Birst is now extending these capabilities to the realm of big data, giving customers a way to unlock insights from ever-growing volumes of data.”

About ParAccel
To gain a competitive advantage in a fast paced, data-driven world companies need immediate answers to any business question they decide to ask. As the leading analytic platform provider, ParAccel accelerates analytics and opens the door for companies to accelerate, innovate, and compete. ParAccel Analytic Platform is an analytic database surrounded by extensibility and integration technology as a foundation for running big data analytics, anytime, anywhere. ParAccel’s Fortune 1000 customers, in digital media, retail, financial services, healthcare, and government, are testing the bounds of unconstrained analytics with the most prolific, most powerful, most expansive analytic platform in the world. For more information please contact us at info@paraccel.com or 866-903-0335.

About Birst
Birst™ is the leader in agile business analytics. It offers a single place to manage all of a business’ analytics and agility to answer questions that span departments, data sources, and deployments—across both public or private Clouds. Birst gives users the fastest way to answer their most pressing business questions—and then all the ones they didn’t know to ask. At one-third the cost, time, and staff of traditional big BI, Birst brings the benefits of analytics and fact-based decision-making to a much broader audience. For more information, visit www.birst.com.